“Silence in the face of evil is evil itself. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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College suppresses study when 1 group goes ‘nuts’ — Like it or not, we can have our personal opinions but not our own, personal facts; this Ivy League university study is being suppressed because it reveals facts that call popular opinion into question.

Cardinal: Pope’s China deal to ‘annihilate’ underground church — In an interview with the U.S.-based Catholic TV network EWTN, Cardinal Joseph Zen, emeritus bishop of Hong Kong, blasted Pope Francis’ deal to accommodate and appease China in its desire to control the church by having its functionaries choose its leadership. He told host Raymond Arroyo: “They are going to annihilate the underground church.”

Pastors: Stop Trying to be Popular! — “There is a very troubling trend in the evangelical church as a whole. We are in desperate need of genuine leadership… Today, the truth is often neglected, watered-down, or avoided altogether in the hope of not offending members and building a large audience…”

U.S. Presidential Resistance against Muslim Brotherhood’s “Civilization Jihad” to Trigger Islamic Uprising? — Quote: “The Brotherhood’s self-avowed goal is to spread Shariah around the globe. In the U.S., it works through a network of alphabet-soup organization that include CAIR, the Muslim Student Association or MSA, the Islamic Society of North America or ISNA, the Islamic Circle of North America or ICNA, and the Muslim American Society or MAS…. The most important Islamic voice to watch in America is the AMJA – the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America.”

NOTE: U.S. Supreme Court Case vs. religious discrimination by Abercrombie & Fitch —> “Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in the June 2015 Abercrombie & Fitch ruling that an employer “may not make an applicant’s religious practice, confirmed or otherwise, a factor in employment decisions” and that “an employer who acts with the motive of avoiding accommodation” may be in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act “even if he has no more than an unsubstantiated suspicion that accommodation would be needed.”

Slavery Re-Established in Venezuala??? — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has decreed that both public- and private-sector employees can be forced to work in farm fields for up to 60 days at a time, or longer, “if circumstances merit.”

‘Star Trek’ Franchise Changes Story-line to Support Gay Agenda — QUOTE: “…Either it’s about the best actor getting the part or it’s about staying true to the characters. You don’t get to have it both ways when it suits your personal agenda…. With their (‘the Left’s’) inconsistencies and cries of racism or sexism or homophobia – of course without any evidence to back it up… It begins to become less about equality or making the best product possible and more about punishing fans and characters alike for the crime of being straight, white males.”

Rule of Law vs. Rule by Law; China shows the power of a Preposition — Quote: “’Rule of law’ implies fairness and predictable application,” he says. “’Rule by law’ would include, for example, rule under Hitler’s Nuremberg Laws (Nürnberger Gesetze), which were neither fair nor predictably applied.”

How Facebook is Slanting the News — ‘News Curators’ are “…told to “select articles from a list of preferred media outlets that included sites like the New York Times, Time, Variety…” BUT “…regularly avoid sites like World Star Hip Hop, The Blaze, and Breitbart…”

Mr. Obama noisily professes to be a Christian… However, as Ralph Waldo Emerson once said; “Your actions speak so loudly, I can not hear what you are saying.” Here (below) are examples of just a few of Mr. Obama’s actions. – michael+

Obama Administration ignoring Christian Refugees? — The U.S. relies on the U.N. to determine who is eligible for asylum. However, threats of Muslim violence, including assault, rape and even murder, prevent most displaced Christians from venturing into U.N. refugee camps to apply for help via the U.N. As a result, 350,000 Syrian Christians have been run out of their homes and terrorized by ISIS, yet the Obama Administration has only taken in 31 Christian refugees vs. 2,000 Syrian Muslims.

The Pulpits are Responsible for All These Problems! – “The church must act right or the country will be ruined. God cannot sustain this free and blessed country, which we love and pray for, unless the church will take right ground. Politics are a part of religion in such a country as this, and Christians must do their duty to the country as a part of their duty to God.” – Lecture XV “Hindrances to Revival” (Revival Lectures, 1855) by Charles Finney

Pastors And Faithful Pick Up Gun Training — “The shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina Wednesday that left nine black parishioners dead is reinforcing… some church members’ belief that they may need to pack a gun when they go to worship.”

Samaritan’s Purse has established a fund to assist people who are punished for allowing their “sincerely held religious beliefs, convictions, and conscience” to impact how they conduct business. — Donations can be made via the the link at the bottom of THIS PAGE.

At least 100,000 Catholics in the area have been displaced, more than 350 churches have been attacked, and more than 5,000 Catholics have been killed by Boko Haram in a single Nigerian diocese, according to a recent report.

Additional background on the perspective of ISIS… “We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses, and enslave your women. If we do not reach that time, then our children and grandchildren will reach it, and they will sell your sons as slaves at the slave market.” –Islamic State Spokesman Sheikh Abu Muhammad al-Adnani

What ISIS Really Wants — “The Koran specifies crucifixion as one of the only punishments permitted for enemies of Islam. .. Leaders of the Islamic State have taken emulation of Muhammad as strict duty, and have revived traditions that have been dormant for hundreds of years.”